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DIASPORA – ITS IMPACT ON INDIAN LITERATUREAbstract
The term ‘diaspora’ was primarily employed in association with the scattering and banishment of the Jews from their fatherland and also their yearning for his or her lost country and the cultural alienation practiced by them within the cultures of latest location. However, in seventeenth century, there was an increase in migration from Bharat. The term diaspora comes from the words “dia” that means “away” and “speirein” that means “scatter” or “sow.” Connotatively, diaspora has been outlined variedly. Diasporic Literature may be a terribly Brobdingnagian thought associate degreed an umbrella term that has in it all those literary works written by the authors outside their native country, however these works area unit related to native culture and background. In this wide context, all those writers will be considered diasporic writers, United Nations agency write outside their country however remained associated with their mother country through their works. Diasporic literature has its roots within the sense of loss and alienation, which emerged as a results of migration and expatriation. Generally, diasporic literature deals with alienation, displacement, existential rootlessness, nostalgia, quest of identity. It also addresses issues related to amalgamation or disintegration of cultures. The Indian diaspora that has its own spatio-temporal dimensions just like any other diaspora, refers to the people of Indian origin who have migrated to foreign lands from the territories that comprise the Indian republic. Diaspora Theory with its various features has influenced the literature of every language of the world. This literature is wide referred to as Expatriate or Diasporic Literature. The diasporic writers usually inter communicate their motherland for numerous reasons like perpetual explore for his/her roots or to immortalize its history or to re-energize ones aching and yearning soul or to live recent reminiscences etc. Their writings conjointly initiate the emergence of a brand new cultural synthesis having its own distinctive identity that would mirror each not solely the motherland however conjointly the host land. The psychological science of the writers of the Indian Diaspora is preponderantly saturated with the weather of yearning as they request to find themselves within the atmosphere of recent cultures. They write within the backcloth of the cultural traits of their land of origin and at constant time endeavor to suit themselves into the cultural area of the host land. And such literature acts as a bridge across varied cultures, paving means for higher understanding between completely different cultural regions, countries associated conjointly renders an impetus for economic process. There has been a great change in the concept of diaspora because of demographic changes and progress in communication technology during the last two decades. Fastest mode of communication, social networking sites have their impact on the experience of exile. Diasporic literature is a useful resource to study. both the challenges of diaspora as well as the strategies of negotiation, as it chiefly speaks of diasporic experience at various levels—place, language, customs, myths, beliefs, geographical displacement, the combat with the gap, changes adopted and constraints. Thus Indian diaspora is constantly involved in expanding and redefining India and Indian ness. Diasporic writing or expatriate literature as it is called, in its theory and practice, is the work of the exile who has experienced unsettlement at the existential, political and metaphysical levels.
KEYWORDS : Motherland, migration, nostalgia, identity, Diaspora